Meet the President

President Univ.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Holger Magel

The FIG General Assembly elected at its
meeting in Washington DC, United States in April 2002 Univ.-Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel as FIG
President for a four-year term of office 1.1.2003-31.12.2006

Curriculum Vitae

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel

Date of birth 3 May 1944

Nationality German

Status Married - wife Ansi

Professional Career

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, born in
Neuburg/Donau in 1944. After doing A-levels in 1963 studies of Geodesy at
the Munich Technische Hochschule up to 1968. After first experiences with
a sworn engineer's office in Graz completion of the Bavarian Traineeship,
and leadership of Land Consolidation measures in Upper and Lower Bavaria.

From 1975 to 1978 position of a curator of the newly established Chair
of Rural Development and Land Consolidation at the Munich Technische
Universität. In 1977 obtaining the degree of a Doktor-Ingenieur about
rural planning.

Acting with the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and
Forestry in the Rural Development Department since 1978, in charge of
building up the Bavarian Village Renewal Programme as well as establishing
a new Method of Landscape and Regionalplanning within Rural Development.

Since 1 Febr. 1995 Head of the Rural Development Department and
Director General of the Bavarian Administration of Rural Development.

Since 1986 lectures for geodesists, civil engineers and geographers at
the Munich Bundeswehr University (up to 1990) and the Munich Technische
Universität. In 1993 appointment as an honorary professor for Rural
Development at the Munich Technische Universität.

President of the Bavarian Academy "Ländlicher Raum" (Rural Areas) since
1994.

Advisor of the European Commission for Rural Development in Eastern
Germany in 1992/93; chairman of the German Bund-Länder Team for Village
Renewal from 1984 - 1995; member of the board of the European Association
for Rural Development and Village Renewal.

Chair of the working group land readjustment and land economics of the
German Geodetic Commission since 2004

Acting as an expert in Eastern- and South Europe as well as in Asia and
South America. More than 250 expert publications and books on land
consolidation, Village renewal ,landscape planning , rural development and
civil society. Many lectures at home and abroad. Member of several
scientific institutions and NGO.

Vice-President (since 1999 ) and then President of the International
Federation of Surveyors, 2002-2006.

Since 1 Jan. 1998 Full Professor and Director of Institute.

Presentations

Changing FIG – Model for a Changing World. Farewell speech at the
Handover Ceremony
on 2 December 2006 in Münster, Germany.

President Holger Magel: From Surveying to Geomatics and Land
Management. About Future Perspectives of a Changing Discipline and
Profession. Presentation at the 14th International Conference on
Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2006) – The 21st Century’s Geoinformatics.
Wuhan, China P.R., October 28-29, 2006.

From secure tenure towards urban and rural land management - about
FIG’s role serving the needs of politics and societies. Presentation at
the UNECE WPLA Workshop on Institutional Framework for Securing Real
Property Rights in Tbilisi, Georgia 11 May 2006

Building Modern Land Administration Systems in Developed Economies –
Aspects and Experiences from Germany. Presentation at the Expert Group
Meeting “Incorporating Sustainable Objectives into ICT, Enabled Land
Administration Systems”, Melbourne, Australia, 9–11 November 2005

About the Identity, Sociopolitical Role and Technical Tasks of
Surveyors on the National and International Stage. Keynote Speech at the
43rd National Conference of Consiglio Nazionale Geometri - New horizons of
the profession: Guarantees for the society in evolution, Palermo, Italy
17-22 October 2005

Surveying the Future – Contributions to Economic, Environmental and
Social Development, Closing address, recommendations and the Jakarta
Statement at the 3rd FIG Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific,
Jakarta October 6, 2004

Land Policy and Land Administration - A Challenge for Surveyors.
Visions and Experiences in Germany. Keynote presentation at the Annual
Surveying Congress of the Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors, DdL,
31 January 2004

International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, is a United Nations and World Bank recognized
non-governmental organization of national member associations
and covers the whole range of professional fields within the
global surveying community. It provides an international forum
for discussion and development aiming to promote professional
practice and standards.